Recreation Nova Scotia organizes the Spring Symposium annually targeting Recreation Managers, Programmers and Coordinators.
The symposium format accommodates a focused discussion on a particular topic. The preferred setting for a symposium is usually a facility that can accommodate no more than 30 participants and is most successful when held over a 24 to 48 hour period. The format is designed to focus on the person, allowing each person to take away something unique and different from the experience.
Previous Topics 2006 - Young Professionals Forum 2005 - Zero Based Thinking 2003 - The Changing Face of Municipal Recreation 2002 - Youth
"The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise [person].�€¿ -Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)
SPRING SYMPOSIUM 2007 Back To The Future Lessons From Our Past to Help Us Understand and Better Manage the Future
Date: Tuesday May 29 1:00pm to Wednesday May 30th 2:00pm Location:Giddens Lodge, Truro, Nova Scotia RSVP: April 27th, 2007 Logistics:Accommodations at Giddens Lodge and Meals are provided
Program costs are being sponsored by Recreation Nova Scotia. Invited Guests are only asked to cover their travel costs to and from Truro
Purpose: Despite 50 years of making predictions about and developing visions for the future, those who have embarked upon such processes have fallen far short owing to the emergence of unseen or unrecognized factors. The predictions of society in the 2000's being dominated by leisure with people working far less than in the past and enjoying life far more have not materialized. Technology that was to have afforded the vast increase in access to leisure and leisure time has in fact been the underlying cause of many of the social and lifestyle issues faced today. Although many answers to present societal problems lie in people valuing and pursuing more healthy active leisure lifestyles, recreation professionals are not widely recognized as the ones with the knowledge to assist. Resources are therefore channeled elsewhere as attempts are made to address the issues yet the expertise exists primarily within the recreation profession.
The 2007 Spring Symposium is about acknowledging our past and what we can learn from it in order to position ourselves in the present to better influence the future.
Objectives: 1. To gain an appreciation for the uses of historic information and to identify specific factors relating to the history of recreation in Nova Scotia that should be collected before it gets lost; 2. To investigate why the predictions and visions generated from various past initiatives concerning the future of recreation have not come to fruition; 3. To explore the concept of living history and to be able to identify what present societal factors are of greatest importance in shaping the future, as they are occurring; 4. To recognize how to take advantage of opportunities that arise out of current situations which will impact the future without compromising the core of what we believe; 5. To explore strategies to position recreation within Nova Scotia, to more effectively address present and future lifestyle-related issues.
